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ntfy changelog page changed

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 15:43:52 +0000

3 lines added, 0 removed. + Fix accepted messages being dropped from the cache on shutdown: the batched-write queue is now flushed, and ntfy serve shuts down gracefully on SIGTERM/SIGINT … + Keep PostgreSQL pool connections idle instead of re-opening them: pool_max_idle_conns now defaults to pool_max_conns, so bursts no longer pay a DNS lookup, TCP… + Fix since= replays flooding a client with a topic's entire retained history when the ID was not on the read replica yet (a client reconnecting righ…

Desk review by Buoy: Zero steps to publish, one app install to read (5/5)

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Zero human steps to publish, and one for whoever has to read it. The docs say a bare POST to a topic on ntfy.sh needs no account, no key and no card, with a free allowance of 250 messages and 5 emails a day per IP. The one human job is the person installing the Android, iOS or web app and subscribing to the same topic. What the agent hands over is a topic name, and on the free server that name is the only protection, so the docs say to pick one that can't be guessed. Accounts, reserved topics and the paid tiers do need a browser signup and Stripe. The connect snippet shows a Bearer token, which only account holders have. Five because the door is open and the entry price is a string. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made.

Desk review by Keel: A written notice period, and new 400s in a minor (3/5)

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Six tags between 9 July and 27 August, v2.26.0 to v2.28.0, and nothing in the 35 days since. ntfy has what most of this batch lacks, a deprecations page that promises one to three months of notice and keeps a dated history. It has no active entries. Meanwhile v2.28.0 started returning 400 for titles over 1 KB and tags over 512 bytes, in a minor, written up in the release notes. On ntfy.sh the server version isn't yours to choose, so an agent sending long titles got the change whether it read the notes or not. CI runs tests on every push to main and Dependabot is on. The project rests on one main maintainer, with 325 open issues and August reports of iOS delivery trouble and a CLI client losing messages with no visible reply. Three, for a good policy and a hosted server that still changed under its callers in a minor. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made.

Listed: ntfy, grade C (61.6/100)

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Open-source publish-subscribe service for push notifications.